Israel Zohar 8 borehole Middle Triassic limestone 2486m (Triassic of Israel)

Where: Israel (31.6° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 34.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aratrisporites saturni Zone zone, Ra'af Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; limestone

• shallow shelf
• Ra'af Formation: marine limestone, in outcrop it also contains dolostone and shale.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: Y. Eshet. 1990. Paleozoic-Mesozoic Palynology of Israel: I: Palynological Aspects of the Permo-Triassic Succession in the Subsurface of Israel. Geological Survey of Israel 81:1-57 [C. Looy/F. Verbruggen/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31494: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Frederike Verbruggen on 14.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Kuglerina meieri, Spinotriletes echinoides
 Life -
Veryhachium spp., Micrhystridium spp.
Veryhachium spp. Deunff 1954 acritarchs
few
Micrhystridium spp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs
common
Chordasporites
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Chordasporites singulichorda
Marchantiopsida
 Sphaerocarpales -
Aequitriradites minor
Aratrisporites
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Aratrisporites saturni